tar-mode in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 cannot count, select ...

From:

Peter Dyballa

Subject:

tar-mode in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 cannot count, select ...

Date:

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:48:35 +0200

Hello!

When viewing a gzip'ed tar file a message like 'tar-view: Args out of
range: 10060955, 10072067' can be displayed. Viewing the same file in
the same archive with GNU Emacs 22.0.50 no such message comes up.

Viewing a file README in that same archive shows in GNU Emacs 22.0.50
a readable text, in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 it seems to be binary. Looking
into the preceding PNG file I can see at its end the second and the
third line of the README file, eight ASCII NUL (^@) follow, no newline.

Doing a CVS update 16:50 MESZ (UTC+2) brings no new Lisp or C code,
so a simple make is started. Gcc used is 'gcc version 4.0.0 20041026
(Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061), Thread model: posix.' The new
version exhibits the same behaviour, launching it with -Q does not
change it.

It seems as if the archive needs to have a size of some MB. ZIP files
seem to work, although I once received 'archive_get_descr: Entry is
not a regular member of the archive' -- the archive came from Mac OS
X ...